Hemamieh

Hemamieh (El-Hammamiya) is a village in Middle Egypt on the east bank of the Nile in the Sohag Governorate.

The site is significant in Egyptology because of its cemeteries from the Prehistoric and Pharaonic periods. From 1922 to 1931 the British archaeologists Gertrude Caton-Thompson and Guy Brunton excavated approximately 10,000 tombs from Qau el-Kebir in the south to Matmar in the north, across an area of about 36 km.

At Hemamieh there were some smaller cemeteries, including important burials of the Badari culture and rock tombs of the Old Kingdom period belonging to the nomarchs of the Wadjit-nome. The best preserved one belongs to Kaikhenet (II), who lived at the beginning of the Fifth Dynasty.

References

• G. Brunton, G. Caton-Thompson: The Badarian civilisation and predynastic remains near Badari (= British School of Archeology in Egypt Publications Bd. 46). British School of Archaeology in Egypt, London 1928.
• Guy Brunton: Qau and Badari Band 1-3 (= British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian Research Account Bd. 44, 45, 50). British School of Egyptian Archaeology u. a., London 1927-1930.
• Ahmed El-Khouli, Naguib Kanawati: The Old Kingdom Tombs of El-Hammamiya. Australian Centre for Egyptology, Sydney 1990, ISBN 0858377020.